Time to announce the winners of this year’s Little Big Thinker Contest! This annual critical thinking contest is based on our philosophical board game, Playwise, which has just been chosen as Creative Kids Magazine’s Game of the Year!

We invited kids of ages 5 to 11 to answer one of these four philosophical questions in any format they prefer, and we were bombarded with smart and creative answers from across the country! There were short stories, beautiful drawings, and even great videos! Our panel of judges chose three that clearly addressed the question with the most originality and creativity.

If you had two heads, would you be smarter?

I wonder if having two heads would make you smarter? It would probably depend if you work together. If you had two heads you’d have a variety of answers. Let’s say if you’re good at math and your head is good at science, then you’d be good in both subjects. Having another head would be like having a sibling, you’d have conflict, but you always have each others back. Hence the saying, two heads are better than one!

By: Mattie Azizan, Grade 5, Elizabeth Park Public School

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If you had two heads, would you be smarter?

“Hello I’m Bella Tame and I will be talking to you about a tragic event that has been going on for an extended time.” “Yes I know it has been going on for a long time, and it has changed our lives.” Andrew explained. “But before we talk to you about this story we will hand the camera over to Sara.” Bella said. “Yes hello we are here over at the H.F.T.H.P which stands for Hospital For Two Headed People, and we are going to talk to a doctor that has worked with two headed people.” Sara said with a smile on her face.

The screen showed a doctor that was very shy to talk about her experience. “ So how do you think these people got two heads.” Sara said. “W...well we think that when they were young the doctor gave them the wrong pills and they reacted differently.” The doctor said in a quiet voice. “Do you think they will grow up being more smart they other kids.”

“Well when you have too heads you can think faster, and you could be good at two subjects so you would be smarter in school, so yes they will probably grow up smarter. When you have two heads you can only control the half your real head is on, But two headed people will probably not go to school because other kids might make fun of them so they will probably be home schooled.”

The doctor said. “ Well I'll have to stop you there because we are out of time, next up the weather, back to you Bella.” Sara said very quickly. “Thanks Sara, well if you weren't listening then you missed the big story about two headed people. Well unfortunately we have no more time left so see you next time on the News Network!” Bella expresses. In conclustion I think you would be smarter with two heads.

By: Autumn Weiss, Grade 5, Elizabeth Park Public School

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Can something be tiny and still be important?

Yes, if it can remind you of something important, like if you traveled to a country that you never went to before and got something small ike a trinket or a bracelet, it could remind you of your trip. Whenever you look at it after you came back from your trip.

If you had two heads, would you be smarter?

No, because if you had two heads, they have two separate brains, which means they think separately and don't even know what one another is thinking about even though they're on the
same person. The brains will have arguments too when they order at a restaurant or what to do on the weekends.

By: Irene Zhang, Grade 4, Katimavik Elementary School

We’ll be sharing the winning answers and many more on our Facebook page! Thanks again to everyone who participated this year.

Can you imagine what would happen if no one went to school?

If no one went to school things would almost be the same. Kids would still learn and make friends. Because you don’t need go to school to learn. You can ask a parent, family member or friend a question about the world. And explore, do science experiments, look on iPhone, tablets, books, and computers or go to the library.

How things would be different is kids would go to work with their parents, learn their parent’s jobs, spend more time with their community, kids would have more playtime! Kids would make friends at their parents work and in their community and playing outside.

Without schools things would almost be the same. I think that without schools the world would be better! Things would be better because you would spend more time with your family and more playtime and see your friends all the time.

By: Hudson Van Dale, Grade 4, homeschool

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Can you imagine what would happen if no one went to school?

If nobody went to school, everyone would be smarter because they would homeschool and when you homeschool you can learn topics better than in school. When you homeschool you get to pick what subject you want to learn about and that makes you smarter because you're more interested in it. But in school you don't get to pick because you have to learn about a subject that is picked by your teacher, not by you, even if you don't want to learn about that subject.

When you homeschool you can take as long as you need to learn about a subject. In school, you have limited time to learn because you have to go to the next class even if you're not done yet. For example, if everybody had enough time to learn about a subject, like math, no one would need calculators to calculate change in stores because everyone would do mental math well.

So, if nobody went to school then everyone would be smarter because they would pick the subjects they wanted to learn about and have lots of time to learn them.

By: Malacai Heibert, Grade 6, homeschool

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Imagine a tree could tell you something. What would that be?

One day I found a tree and it asked me if I wanted to hear all the things that have happened in the forest thousand years ago. I of course and sat down on an old stump and listened it said. “A thousand years ago when the grass just started to grow is when it happened. A tiny camp fire turned into the biggest forest fire ever! Flames bursting every where people screaming every where. A thousand years ago when the grass was still trying to grow. People started chopping down trees but not me of course I was still alive and feling quite fine. A thousand years ago when the grass did grow did grow somebody told me I was the tallest living tree. And they stuck a big medal on me. A hundred years after that when the grass almost done growing. People came and said I was not the tallest tree anymore. They ripped the tallest tree medal of me and stuck it on the tree right next to me. And a hundred years after that when the grass had one mour inch to grow, they took the medal off the tree, chopped it down and put it back on me. Eight hundred years after that when the grass was done was done growing a girl came to me and that girl is you!” And he said to me. “That stump that, veary stump your sitting on is the tree that took the medal from me. And from that day on every weekend I would sit on that stump and listen to a story from a thousand years ago.
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By: Reese, Grade 2

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If you had two heads, would you be smarter?

I wonder if having two heads would make you smarter? It would probably depend if you work together. If you had two heads you’d have a variety of answers. Let’s say if you’re good at math and your head is good at science, then you’d be good in both subjects. Having another head would be like having a sibling, you’d have conflict, but you always have each others back. Hence the saying, two heads are better than one!

By: Mattie Azizan, Grade 5, Elizabeth Park Public School

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If you had two heads, would you be smarter?

“Hello I’m Bella Tame and I will be talking to you about a tragic event that has been going on for an extended time.” “Yes I know it has been going on for a long time, and it has changed our lives.” Andrew explained. “But before we talk to you about this story we will hand the camera over to Sara.” Bella said. “Yes hello we are here over at the H.F.T.H.P which stands for Hospital For Two Headed People, and we are going to talk to a doctor that has worked with two headed people.” Sara said with a smile on her face.

The screen showed a doctor that was very shy to talk about her experience. “ So how do you think these people got two heads.” Sara said. “W...well we think that when they were young the doctor gave them the wrong pills and they reacted differently.” The doctor said in a quiet voice. “Do you think they will grow up being more smart they other kids.”

“Well when you have too heads you can think faster, and you could be good at two subjects so you would be smarter in school, so yes they will probably grow up smarter. When you have two heads you can only control the half your real head is on, But two headed people will probably not go to school because other kids might make fun of them so they will probably be home schooled.”

The doctor said. “ Well I'll have to stop you there because we are out of time, next up the weather, back to you Bella.” Sara said very quickly. “Thanks Sara, well if you weren't listening then you missed the big story about two headed people. Well unfortunately we have no more time left so see you next time on the News Network!” Bella expresses. In conclustion I think you would be smarter with two heads.

By: Autumn Weiss, Grade 5, Elizabeth Park Public School

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Can something be tiny and still be important?

Yes, if it can remind you of something important, like if you traveled to a country that you never went to before and got something small ike a trinket or a bracelet, it could remind you of your trip. Whenever you look at it after you came back from your trip.

If you had two heads, would you be smarter?

No, because if you had two heads, they have two separate brains, which means they think separately and don't even know what one another is thinking about even though they're on the
same person. The brains will have arguments too when they order at a restaurant or what to do on the weekends.